Istvaan V, also spelled as Isstvan V in Imperial records, was the barren Imperial world in the Istvaan (Isstvan) System of the Segmentum Obscurus where the infamous Drop Site Massacre of the Horus Heresy took place that deeply damaged the Loyalist Space Marine Legions in the worst betrayal in Imperial history. During the massacre, the Traitor Legions of the Warmaster Horus redeployed following the virus-bombing of the Traitor Legions' own Loyalist members at Istvaan III at the start of the Horus Heresy. Upon learning of the terrible atrocity Horus had committed, the Emperor of Mankind ordered seven Loyalist Legions of Space Marines deployed to the Istvaan System to bring Horus to account for his actions. The Iron Hands, Salamanders and Raven Guard made up the first wave of the attack, but
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| - Istvaan V, also spelled as Isstvan V in Imperial records, was the barren Imperial world in the Istvaan (Isstvan) System of the Segmentum Obscurus where the infamous Drop Site Massacre of the Horus Heresy took place that deeply damaged the Loyalist Space Marine Legions in the worst betrayal in Imperial history. During the massacre, the Traitor Legions of the Warmaster Horus redeployed following the virus-bombing of the Traitor Legions' own Loyalist members at Istvaan III at the start of the Horus Heresy. Upon learning of the terrible atrocity Horus had committed, the Emperor of Mankind ordered seven Loyalist Legions of Space Marines deployed to the Istvaan System to bring Horus to account for his actions. The Iron Hands, Salamanders and Raven Guard made up the first wave of the attack, but
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| - Istvaan V, also spelled as Isstvan V in Imperial records, was the barren Imperial world in the Istvaan (Isstvan) System of the Segmentum Obscurus where the infamous Drop Site Massacre of the Horus Heresy took place that deeply damaged the Loyalist Space Marine Legions in the worst betrayal in Imperial history. During the massacre, the Traitor Legions of the Warmaster Horus redeployed following the virus-bombing of the Traitor Legions' own Loyalist members at Istvaan III at the start of the Horus Heresy. Upon learning of the terrible atrocity Horus had committed, the Emperor of Mankind ordered seven Loyalist Legions of Space Marines deployed to the Istvaan System to bring Horus to account for his actions. The Iron Hands, Salamanders and Raven Guard made up the first wave of the attack, but were pushed back by the superior tactics of Horus' maddened Chaos Space Marines. The Loyalist reserves were called in, but the four Space Marine Legions comprising those reserves -- the Iron Warriors, the Alpha Legion, the Word Bearers and the Night Lords -- had also secretly betrayed the Emperor and were prepared to follow Horus into rebellion and treachery and swear themselves to the service of the Warmaster and Chaos. The three Loyalist Legions were almost annihilated in the resulting crossfire but several thousand survivors from each Legion managed to escape off-world, though they were too decimated to play much of a further role in the defence of the Imperium from Horus' betrayal.
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